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The Westbrook Blake - Mike Westbrook Obe, Kate Westbrook, Phil Minton And Band
Courtesy of Evvnt | Posted on October 28, 2022
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Thu, November 24, 2022
20:00
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Mike Westbrook OBE is an English jazz pianist, composer, and writer of orchestrated jazz pieces.
The Independent on Sunday called The Westbrook Blake 'perhaps the greatest work in all British jazz'.
Mike Westbrook's settings of the poetry of William Blake (also known in different versions as Glad Day and Bright As Fire) is one of his most joyous and powerful works. This concert features the two original singers, Kate Westbrook and Phil Minton, while Mike Westbrook leads his own small band.
The settings of William Blake's powerful poetry were originally commissioned in 1971 for the National Theatre production of Adrian Mitchell's Tyger. The Westbrook Blake, has been performed many times since, in London, throughout Europe, in New York and Australia....